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Geosciences and water resources : environnmental data modeling
- Date_TXT
- Berlin :Springer , 1997
- Cote
- 628.11 BAR
- Auteur
- Bardinet, C, J. Royer
- Type de document
- Livre
Description :
This volume contains selected up-to-date professional papers prepared by specialists from various disciplines related to geosciences and water resources. Thirty papers discuss different aspects of environmental data modeling. It provides a forum bringing together contributions, both theoretical and applied, with special attention to Water in Ecosystems, Global Atmospheric Evolution, Space and Earth Remote Sensing, Regional Environmental Changes, Accessing Geo-environmental Data and Eco-toxicological Issues.
"Geosciences and Water Resources: Environmental Data Modeling" is now the fourth volume in the Series "Data and Knowledge in a Changing World".
Launched by CODATA after the 14th International Conference of the Committee on Data for Sciences and Technology, in Chambery, the purpose of this new Series is to collect from widely varying fields a wealth of information pertaining to the intelligent exploitation of data in science and technology and to make that information available to a multidisciplinary community.
The present series encompasses a broad range of contributions, including computer-related handling and visualization of data, to the major scientific, technical, medical and social fields. The titles of the previous published volumes are:
-The information revolution, impact on science and technology
-Modeling complex data for creating information
-Industrial information and design issues.
These titles, edited by J. -E. Dubois and N. Gershon, demonstrate the objectives of the series on Data and Knowledge which is open to contributions of various kinds, namely those defined by E. Fluck:
-fostering the improvement, not only of the quality and accessibility of quantitative and qualitative data, but of the classical and groundbreaking methods by which numeric and symbolic data are acquired, analyzed and managed;
-presenting new data and knowledge interfaces designed to optimize interoperability and thereby increase the potential of sharing data among databases and networks;
-intensifying international cooperation in communication and data sharing. This implies work dealing with standardization, data quality agreements and conceptual data descriptions (metadata, syntactic and semantic approaches), the evolution of Internet-based facilities, other forms of worldwide communications and electronic publishing;
-developing creative designs in the field of engineering, including cognitive aspects critical to data-based decision making.
In view of the changing nature of the information required to study complex systems, CODATA's scope now includes data activities and interdisciplinary modeling such as that encountered in far-reaching projects (e.g. Global Change, various Genome projects, environmental and biodiversity issues, etc.) or in certain medical information systems. Most of the above will therefore be highlighted in this Series.
Moreover, the present Communication Revolution intensifies the role of data and information, thus challenging our ability to adapt our quality control to the new dimensions of the emerging network systems on local, regional and international levels.
As dozens of new sites appear daily on the Internet, driving on the information highway becomes more and more difficult. Paradoxically, the increasing power of the network may lead to a giant information traffic jam: too much information may kill information. Now is the time to structure the access and to cross-validate information systems and databases. This requires a lot of work but is necessary to ensure reliable access to pertinent scientific data. The 12th International CODATA Conference, held in Columbus in 1990, was entitled "Data for Discovery". This slogan is still alive today and could be extended by "Internet for Discovery". More than ever, today's powerful emerging tools should help in the production and use of information, the future resource for the society of worldwide knowledge that the coming century will witness.
In this evolving world where, in many ways, data are becoming essential resources, this Series aims to present innovative concepts ultimately leading to new information paradigms. In so doing, it should become an intensive, thought provoking forum.